Because of the fourth round of cuts to education in just 12 months, the academic futures of California’s school children are being bankrupted.

Our public schools, students and teachers have endured too much already.

Public education has taken more than 60 percent of the state’s budget cuts.

This amounts to nearly $3,000 per student being cut. The future we want for our children and our state can only be achieved by investing in our children today.

Maybe it’s time for the state to temporarily suspend its testing and accountability system until it can provide adequate funding. We can’t expect our students to continue to make improvements and meet our standards when the state refuses to provide the resources necessary to help students succeed. California’s academic standards are some of the highest in the nation, but our funding to support these standards is at an embarrassing level of 47th in the nation.

The education of our children must be the states’s top priority if we are going to reach a better future.

Please contact your legislators to continue to fight to make sure that all students get the quality education they deserve and that schools get the resources they need to help students succeed.

NANCY GLENN Redlands

No more

Thanks to Mr. Hueston for doing what District Attorney Ramos could not – accumulate 33 pages of charges and misdeeds to indict his buddy Bill Postmus. There were dozens of actual hard-working people at the Assessor’s Office who have had their lives turned topsy turvy by the Postmus fiasco and willing to spill the dirt. All we had to do was ask.

People in this county feel like chumps and that’s not fun. We have paid millions for salaries and cell phones for sleazy political types who don’t have to feed families and explain to their children why things are the way they are.

I am not going to put up with it anymore. Who’s with me? Who is tired of the DA and his inept ability to administer the law, not just against the crooks who wear saggy pants and gang colors, but against the insidious ones who wear a tie and appear to be honest.

These are the real criminals. DA Ramos, please have the backbone to stand up for this area or crawl in a hole and be the rat you are.

ANGELICA FUENTES Colton

School daze

I usually have trouble staying focused and awake during school. It’s really hard to get good grades when you feel tired and fatigued all day.

I believe that schools should start one or two hours later than the usual schedule. This will help students get more rest, therefore we will be able to pay more attention and perform better on tests and quizzes.

I have also noticed that some students don’t have responsible parents that care if their child goes to school or not and have to walk a long distance just to get to school.

These students are usually always late to school.

If school started one or two hours later, there would be a significant change overall. It will benefit the student body greatly.

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